The developers of the Wise-Anderson Protocol for the treatment of a certain set of specific chronic pelvic pain syndromes have discovered that lowering anxiety and nervous system arousal is an indispensable component of effectively reducing chronic pelvic pain. David Wise, PhD, one of the Wise-Anderson Protocol developers, calls the need to lower autonomic nervous system…

In the last several decades, it has been discovered that myofascial trigger points, taut bands of painful muscle, are central sites of pain in many men and women suffering with a variety of pelvic floor pain syndromes. Over this period of time a growing number of physical therapists have treated these trigger points internally with…